What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt
by Chris Hedges
"The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule."

Overkill
Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race
by Nick Turse
"In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today's high explosives seem feeble, 'guided bullets' will put the current crop of snipers to shame, and new multi-purpose missiles will strike targets in a flash from high-flying drones. At least, that's part of the Pentagon's battlefield vision of tomorrow's tomorrow."

Meet Mubarak's American fan club
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT
"Nevertheless, there are a handful of politicians and pundits who are actively decrying the protests -- and even, in a few cases, explicitly supporting the Mubarak regime."

America's treatment of detainees
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Amnesty International has written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates objecting to the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, which was first reported here."

The Disappearance of Keith Olbermann
by Robert Parry
"Keith Olbermann’s abrupt departure from MSNBC should be another wake-up call to American progressives about the fragile foothold that liberal-oriented fare now has for only a few hours on one corporate cable network."

As Bad as Bush
by Mike Whitney
"His enemies call him a tyrant and a dictator, but he is neither. Hugo Chavez is a tireless champion of the poor and a committed Christian socialist. The only difference between Chavez's type of Christianity and Barack Obama's, is that Chavez walks the walk."

Palestinian Papers: What the Al Jazeera Blockbuster Me
by MJ Rosenberg
"The bottom line is that, despite the assurances it gave to the Palestinian people that it was driving a hard bargain with the Israelis, the Palestinian Authority accepted Israel's position on every key point: borders, Jerusalem, settlements, refugees."

Where Liberals Go to Feel Good
by Chris Hedges
"And at a moment when we desperately need citizens and institutions willing to stand up against corporate forces for the core liberal values, values that make a democracy possible, we get the ridiculous chatter and noise of the liberal class."

The vindication of Dick Cheney
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The American Right constantly said during the Bush years that any President who knew what Bush knew and was faced with the duty of keeping the country safe would do the same thing. Obama has provided the best possible evidence imaginable to prove those claims true."

America in the age of primitivism
BY MICHAEL LIND
"Is the 21st century a Dark Age, compared to the 20th? Is the culture of modernity and enlightenment slipping away, in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world? Is this really an age of neo-primitivism and superstition?"

Daley is a reflection, not a cause
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The groups which Obama cares about pleasing -- Wall Street, corporate interests, conservative Democrats, the establishment media, independent voters -- all have one thing in common: they will support only those politicians who advance their agenda, but will vigorously oppose those who do not."

The American Way of Torture
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
"Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians."

The Power of False Narrative
by Robert Parry
"As the House of Representatives was engaged in its reading of an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution – leaving out parts like the sections on slavery that would make the Founders look bad – I was reminded again of the power of false narrative, especially at a time when the American Right dominates the U.S. media landscape."

DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
by GLENN GREENWALD
"What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter -- which is actually an Order from a federal court that the DOJ requested -- seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks' Twitter account."

Government-created climate of fear
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Most of those expressing these concerns were perfectly rational, smart, well-informed American citizens. And yet they were petrified that merely donating money to a non-violent political and journalistic group whose goals they supported would subject them to invasive government scrutiny or, worse, turn them into criminals."

What U.S. "justice" signifies around the world
by GLENN GREENWALD
"It's quite notable that the mere threat of ending up in American custody is considered (at least by Assange's lawyers) to be a viable basis for contesting extradition on human rights grounds."

Soldier's inhumane imprisonment
LA Times editorial
"For five months, Pfc. Bradley Manning is confined to his cell for 23 hours a day, with no sheets and without exercise, while he awaits trial on charges of providing documents to WikiLeaks."

Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich
by Chris Hedges
"Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations."

The five worldviews that define American politics
by MICHAEL LIND
"Does it often seem that many American politicians and pundits are talking past each other? That is because they really are. The frustrating nature of public debate arises in large part from the fact that Americans do not share a single worldview."

Brookings' "centrist" opposition to the rule of law
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Dutifully fulfilling his function, Wittes has spent the last several years joining with former Bush OLC lawyer Jack Goldsmith to defend indefinite detention without charges as well as the creation of 'national security courts' to allow 'preventive detention.'"

U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S.
by GLENN GREENWALD
"All of this underscores the rapidly expanding powers the U.S. Government and law enforcement agents within the country are seizing without a shred of due process. For the government to put an American citizen on the no-fly list while he's traveling outside the U.S. is tantamount to barring him from entering his own country -- a draconian punishment, involuntary exile, meted out with any due process."

WikiLeaks and the First Amendment
by Geoffrey R. Stone
"The bottom line is this: The proposed SHIELD Act is plainly unconstitutional. At the very least, it must limit its prohibition to those circumstances in which the individual who publicly disseminates classified information knew that the dissemination would create a clear and present danger of grave harm to our nation or its people."

Let's stop pretending the Constitution is sacred
by MICHAEL LIND
"But Tea Party constitutionalism represents a deeply flawed understanding of America's founding, which ought to be based on the revolutionary idea of the power of the sovereign people to make and unmake constitutions of their design, not on superstitious veneration of particular constitutions handed down by wise demigods."

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired
by GLENN GREENWALD
"For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source."

Journalist John Pilger speaks out on charges against Julian Assange
by Julie Hyland
"Assange’s imprisonment is a legal travesty. Its aim is to punish the WikiLeaks founder for publishing documents exposing the crimes and conspiracies carried out by US officials and others, and to intimidate anyone who dares to oppose the political machinations and warmongering of the major powers."

The Government's one-way mirror
by GLENN GREENWALD
"One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously monitoring, invading and collecting files on everything its citizenry does."

The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time
by Al Franken
"This principle is called "net neutrality" -- and it's under attack. Internet service giants like Comcast and Verizon want to offer premium and privileged access to the Internet for corporations who can afford to pay for it."

Monitoring America
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
"Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators."

Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail
by Chris Hedges
"The solemnity of that funerary march, the hush, was the hardest and most moving part of Thursday's protest against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."

U.N. to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Both The Guardian and the Associated Press are reporting that the U.N.'s top official in charge of torture is now formally investigating the conditions under which the U.S. is detaining accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning."

Is Barack Obama the Problem?
by Robert Parry
"Despite some recent victories like repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” many on the American Left are feeling a cumulative disgust toward President Barack Obama, not just for his generally timid policy choices but – even more so – for his failure to articulate and fight for progressive values."

Obama is dealing away FDR's legacy
by JULIAN E. ZELIZER
"With public attention focused on President Obama's compromise with Republican leaders to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, there has been less discussion about a feature of the deal that could have enormous long-term consequences: the payroll tax holiday."

The triangulation Obama is guilty of
by STEVE KORNACKI
"Triangulation can also be defined, as Jonathan Bernstein writes today, as legislative pragmatism -- something that existed long before Clinton was president. This definition better fits Obama's current strategy."

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture."

Getting to Assange through Manning
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Federal investigators are 'are looking for evidence of any collusion' between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- 'trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped' the Army Private leak the documents -- and then 'charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them.'"

The Insurance File
Fighting both the government and the hackersby Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"Julian Assange is in a British jail, awaiting an extradition hearing on
being expedited to Sweden, where he may be accused of sexual molestation
under Sweden's peculiar laws in which sex with a consenting adult can be
deemed a sex crime if it concludes without use of a condom."

Save Obama's presidency by challenging him on the left
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
"To many liberals and progressives, the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions."

Is Barack Obama Stupid?
by Cenk Uygur
"Of course, there are two other explanations for the actions of Obama White House. The first one is that they're not dumb, they are embarrassingly weak...The last possible explanation is the worst of all. He is complicit."

And Now: Anti-Semitism
by Jonathan Schell
"It's indeed amazing how often, in the past hundred years or so, the most deranged people, movements and governments have found their way, with a kind of dreary consistency, to anti-Semitism as the explanation for their activities."

Happy as a Hangman
by Chris Hedges
"Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state."

Who's Right? Obama or the 'Base'?
by Robert Parry
"When President Barack Obama lashed out at the liberal base of the Democratic Party – condemning many on the Left as “sanctimonious” purists – he underscored how profoundly his actions have alienated some of his past supporters and how little he understands why."

The Hidden Cost of Capitulation
by Cenk Uygur
"If you are sending out your people to talk up polls about how the right the Republicans were on the tax cuts for the rich now, how are you going to send out the same people to talk about how wrong they were - and how wrong you were - two years from now?"

On Korea, Here We Go Again!
by Robert Parry
"If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula."

The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who -- with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents -- allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon."

Real Hope Is About Doing Something
by Chris Hedges
"Hope is not trusting in the ultimate goodness of Barack Obama, who, like Herod of old, sold out his people. It is not having a positive attitude or pretending that happy thoughts and false optimism will make the world better."

The US of A breaks the Soviet record
by GLENN GREENWALD
"On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been fighting in this South Asian country for as long as the Soviets did in their humbling attempt to build up a socialist state."

Cables Hold Clues to US-Iran Mysteries
by Robert Parry
"Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks show that the Obama administration, like its predecessors, has played a double game with Iran’s Shiite government, mixing public offers of reconciliation with secret collaboration on hard-line strategies favored by its Sunni Arab rivals and Israel."

The El-Masri Cable
by Scott Horton
"Koenig [the senior career diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin], aware that German prosecutors had issued arrest warrants against thirteen U.S. government agents who were involved in El-Masri’s abduction and torture, and that an effort would shortly be made to enforce them internationally, was pressing the German government to block this effort."

Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The US struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in reaction to heavy political pressure."

Barack Obama's Missing Mojo
by Bob Burnett
"Responsibility for the overwhelming defeat in the midterm elections falls squarely on the shoulders of Obama, the Party leader. Democrats lost the message battle, and as a result, lost the money war and voter turnout campaign."

A False Target in Yemen
by GREGORY JOHNSEN
"But no one should remain under the mistaken assumption that killing Mr. Awlaki will somehow make us safer."

Use Your Executive Authority, President Obama
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
"...the president still has the power to use executive orders, rulemaking and diplomacy to further the progressive agenda without ever consulting Congress."

Liar, Liar
by Philip Giraldi
"What Obama should have said was that it has now become clear that Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has no desire for any peace agreement that does not provide for perpetual and absolute Israeli dominance over the Palestinians."

Enjoy that Democratic Senate while it lasts
by STEVE KORNACKI
"Assuming there are no party switches or resignations between now and then, Democrats can afford a net loss of no more than three seats (or two, if a Republican were to win the presidential race) in the '12 election if they want to preserve their majority -- a task much easier said than done."

Democrats and the rule of law
by GLENN GREENWALD
"If it were true -- as most Obama defenders argued -- that giving civilian trials to accused Terrorists is not merely a good option, but required by the Constitution, the rule of law, and our values, then isn't it logically and necessarily true that Obama's refusal to grant such trials constitutes a violation of our Constitution, our rule of law and our values?"

Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance
by GLENN GREENWALD
"As Cantor's behavior demonstrates, the rules that apply to 'foreign countries' are inapplicable to Israel because in mainstream American politics, Israel is not considered and therefore is not treated as a 'foreign country' at all.

The Stench of American Hypocrisy
by Paul Craig Roberts
"Ten years of rule by the Bush and Obama regimes have seen the collapse of the rule of law in the United States."

A Small Fraction of a Man
by William Rivers Pitt
"George W. Bush was, and likely will forever be, the single worst American president in the nation's history. To outstrip his remarkable record of failure, criminality and disgrace, a future president will have to personally cause the Earth to crash into the sun."

The "pro-Constitution=pro-terrorist" canard
by GLENN GREENWALD
"How could it ever "cross a line" for a civil liberties lawyer to represent an American citizen in an American court arguing that the Government is transgressing the limits of the U.S. Constitution?"

When Is the Far Right Going to Start Listening to the Military?
by Joe Cirincione
"The New START treaty has the unanimous support of America's military leaders. But you wouldn't know it from the wails of far-right pundits. For a group that traditionally poses as defenders of America against appeasing, anti-military liberals, they are amazing dismissive of the strong, urgent calls from the military for the Senate to approve this new security pact."

Accountability for Torture (in Britain)
NYT Editorial
"The United States still operates the Guantánamo camp, with no end in sight. None of the truly dangerous terrorists there have been brought to justice, while many prisoners are still held who never should have been. The government not only refuses to come clean on this ignoble history, but it is covering up the Bush administration’s abuses by denying victims a day in court."

The Ghailani verdict and American justice
by GLENN GREENWALD
"When a reviled defendant is acquitted in court, and torture-obtained evidence is excluded, that isn't proof that the justice system is broken; it's proof that it works."

Why I'm betting on Obama for 2012
by STEVE KORNACKI
"I've written over and over that Barack Obama's fate in 2012 hinges on the state of the economy. If it's clearly improving, he'll be fine; if it's not, he won't."

Voters: Forget Politics. Jobs, Please!
by Andy Kroll
"...according to a new exit poll by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. The firm's findings, released Friday, show that voters weren't necessarily allying themselves with the GOP, but rather were voicing their disapproval with Washington as a whole, and especially with the federal government's inability to restart America's economic engine."

And now for the next battle
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
"President Obama allowed Republicans to define the terms of the nation's political argument for the past two years and permitted them to draw battle lines the way they wanted. Neither he nor his party can let that happen again."

Of Irony and Implosion
by David Michael Green
"This country is imploding. It has been for thirty years, if not fifty. What happened Tuesday was egregious in every respect, but at the end of the day represents little more than just another data point on a secular trend line."

This is the End of the Republican Party
by Thom Hartmann
"Whoever is saying that last night was the demise of the Democratic party - they're wrong! In reality, it's the end of the Republican party."

Hard Lessons from Election 2010
by Robert Parry
"Election 2010 was a victory for corporatist Republicans even more so than Tea Party radicals, a stunning resurgence for the Establishment GOP that says as much about weaknesses among Democrats and the Left as it does about strengths on the Right."

Nancy Pelosi's final act of revenge?
by STEVE KORNACKI
"A report in Roll Call on Thursday suggested that John Larson, who is now the House's fourth-ranking Democrat, is toying with challenging Hoyer for minority leader."

Government accusations: no evidence needed
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The reality, as today's version of the NYT makes clear, is that the U.S. has no idea who is responsible for sending these bombs. So in the dark are they that Homeland Security actually blamed two Yemeni schools that don't even seem to exist, with the only one remotely similar to it being one sponsored by the State Department."

Secretary Clinton: The past must be confronted
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a former Khmer Rouge torture house in Cambodia on Monday and urged the nation to proceed with trials of the former regime's surviving leaders in order to 'confront its past.'"

NYT v. the world: WikiLeaks coverage
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The difference in how (a) the NYT 'reported on' -- i.e., whitewashed -- these horrific, incriminating revelations about the U.S. and (b) the rest of the world media reported on it, could not be more vast."

How Obama Lost the Narrative
by David Corn
"It wasn't just what Obama did, but how he did it. The president forfeited control of the narrative—as they like to say in Washington—because he blew several specific opportunities."

Toxic Brew
by George Monbiot
"The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has ever seen. And it is the biggest astroturf operation in history. These accomplishments are closely related."

WPost Downplays Iraq War Crimes
by Robert Parry
"The judges at Nuremberg after World War II had a much deeper understanding of the horrors of war than the neocon editors at the Washington Post do."

Say No or Surrender: Progressives Seek to Close "Enthusiasm Gap" for Evil
by Chris Floyd
"Yes, Obama is back on the front lines in the legal battle to defend, uphold, entrench and expand the worst abuses of power carried out by his loathed predecessor. His Yoo-like legal minions have convinced the Supreme Court to consider quashing a case that has been upheld by several lower, conservative courts as one worthy to be heard in court."

Attack on the Middle Class!!
by James K. Galbraith
"THE REMARKABLE thing about the American middle class is that we still have one, given the job losses, housing bust, and 401(k) wipeout of the past three years—and considering that for 35 years, politicians (and the bankers who own them) have been hammering away at middle-class institutions."

The High Price of Patriotism
by Robert Scheer
"It's over for the U.S. in Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean the death and destruction are about to stop."

Two Speeches Obama Should Give -- and Probably Won't
by Robert Kuttner
"Voters are still seeking some signs that the Democrats are on their side. Here are two speeches Obama should give, and probably won't. One concerns Social Security, the other the incipient Banking Crisis II."

Midterms 2010
Why boring is better than deadby Bryan Zepp Jamieson"With the US careening toward midterm elections like a drunk driver approaching a train crossing, now's a good time to look at the overall situation. It isn't pretty."

Wall Street Hopes to Use Republicans to Re-Purchase Congress
by Robert Creamer
"Democrats in Congress and the Obama Administration turned on Wall Street and -- from Wall Street's point of view -- had the "audacity" to pass legislation that reined in the recklessness that had cost eight million Americans their jobs."

A Long History of America's Dark Side
by Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry
"There is a dark -- seldom acknowledged -- thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic."

DOJ’s Troubled Case Against Uthman
by Dafna Linzer
"Two men were tortured for more than a year inside the CIA's secret prisons program. One committed suicide at Guantánamo Bay. Another was driven "psychotic" from interrogations."

The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
by Robert Reich
"Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before -- and they're doing it behind closed doors."

Sullivan's defense of presidential assassinations
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Moreover, it's almost impossible to ignore how similar are the rhetoric and rationale between (a) Bush supporters who justified presidential torture and (b) Obama supporters who now justify presidential due-process-free assassinations."

Robert Gibbs, hypocritical transparency crusader
by GLENN GREENWALD
"...Gibbs himself -- back in 2003 and 2004 -- was heavily involved in exactly the same kind of anonymous-funded negative campaign the Chamber is running now, when the brand new advocacy group for which he was the spokesman invoked the same excuses as the Chamber is invoking now to conceal its donors."

They hate us for our occupations
by GLENN GREENWALD
"[Robert]Pape. . . will present findings on Capitol Hill Tuesday that argue that the majority of suicide terrorism around the world since 1980 has had a common cause: military occupation."